Dr Roger Allen

Books and Book Chapters:

‘”Die Weihe des Hauses: Houston Stewart Chamberlain and the Early Reception of Parsifal’ in ed. William Kindermann and Katherine R. Syer, A Companion to Wagner’s Parsifal, (New York: Camden House, 2005), pp. 245-76  

Contributions to The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (2013)

 Richard Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ (1870): A New Translation (The Boydell Press, 2014) 

Wilhelm Furtwängler: Art, Politics and the Unpolitical (The Boydell Press, 2018)

‘The Bayreuth Concept and the Significance of Performance’, in Ed Mark Berry and Nicholas Vazsonyi, The Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’, (Cambridge, 2020), pp.141-55

‘Adorno’s Mahler’, in Ed Charles Youmans, Mahler in Context (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 266-73

Arthur Nikisch: Connecting Cultures in a Fragmenting World (The Boydell Press, 2025)

‘”What you have achieved is self-sufficiency”: Richard Wagner’s Studies with Christian Gottlieb Müller and Theodor Christian Weinlig’, in hrsg. Stefan Keym, Mendelssohn und Wagner: Zwei Symbolfiguren der Leipziger Musikgeschichte, (Leipzig: Gudrun Schröder Verlag, 2026) pp. 63-75

‘Wagner and Wagnerism in fin-de-siècle Vienna: Houston Stewart Chamberlain and The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899)’ in ed. Anna Stoll Knecht and Anastasia Belina, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in 1903 Vienna, (New York and London: Routledge, 2026) pp.191-206

Selected Articles:

‘Das, was eigentlich Musik’: Richard Wagner’s reception of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 (The Wagner Journal Vol 13 No 2, July 2019)

Furtwängler, Schenker and the Idea of the Organic (2019)

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 ‘Beethovens unendliche Melodie’ (wagnerspectrum, Heft 1/2020 tr. Stefanie Arendt)

Article: ‘On the Destiny of Opera’: The Musically Conceived Drama or ‘Deeds of Music made Visible’ (The Wagner Journal Vol 15 No 3, November 2021)

Annotated translation with critical apparatus: ‘On the Destiny of Opera’: An Academic Lecture by Richard Wagner (The Wagner Journal Vol 16 No 1, March 2022

‘”Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit“: Richard Wagner and Johann Sebastian Bach‘ (The Wagner Journal, Vol 20 No 2, July 2026 pp. 4-21

Current research includes issues of harmony and musical syntax in the music of Wagner, Bruckner and Elgar together with an investigation of the idea of the organic metaphor as a means of understanding musical process. Ongoing study of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century century performance practice includes the development of critical methodologies for the study of historic recordings as a musicological resource.